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【标题】中西方身势语的特征分类及应用 【作者】豆远霞 【关键词】身势语;?特征;?分类;?应用;?方法 【指导老师】白 敏 项 谊 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionPeople can communicate with each other through not only verbal communication but also nonverbal communication. Body language is an important part of nonverbal communication and it is connected with culture，and it is the result of cultures. But many people pay great attention to the acceptance and correctness of the verbal communication and overlook the influence and cultural difference of nonverbal communication. Then the misunderstanding and cultural crash often occur not only in the cross-cultural communication but also in our daily life. This paper devotes to a comparison of body language between Chinese and English cultures in terms of hand gesture, eye language, facial expressions, touch.?Body language is called kinesics. Birdwhistell, an American psychologist, is the first person that created the definition of?“body language” and he called it?“optics” it means the system of motive power. Birdwhstell indicates that all parts of human body, all organs?? can express and exchange information, emotion and attitude; moreover, these can make?? efforts that words cannot obtain. Scholars reckon that?“Body language is information”. In the west, Birdwhistell is the leader in study of body language. He believes that among all means of expressing emotion and attitude, more than sixty percent is finished by facial expression, gestures, postures, etc.?“This famous scholar indicates that face can make 250,000 kinds of expression and eyebrow can have 23 places.”1Yang Xiaoli once analyzed the Chinese phases and gets a conclusion that more than one hundred and sixty Chinese phrases are used to represent the context of body language and they can convey emotion and intention separately. The psychologist, David Abercrombie also point out?“We say with our phonetic organs, but we talk with the whole body.” Body language is nonverbal action that delivers information through postur